Youths terrorised family

A FAMILY including a pregnant mother and a young child were forced to cower in their home last July as youths outside shouted racist taunts and threatened to burn the house down, a court heard yesterday.

A FAMILY including a pregnant mother and a young child were forced to cower in their home last July as youths outside shouted racist taunts and threatened to burn the house down, a court heard yesterday.

The gang had shouted, "Kill him!", bricks were thrown and the family car was smashed during mayhem in the early hours, Caernarfon Crown Court was told.

Two men who were among the crowd were each jailed for six months.

Barry Jones, 23, of William Street, and 22-year-old Mark Williams of Ffordd Glascoed, both of Caernarfon, pleaded guilty to racially-aggravated harassment.

Williams also admitted a public order offence duringan earlier fracas outside a kebab shop in Caernarfon town centre, in which a largenumber of young peoplehad been involved and which had ignited the night's trouble.

Mr Recorder Dafydd Hughes told the two men that the ethnic family "were genuinely put in fear of their lives".

Simon Rogers, prosecuting, said the trouble started about 1.15am last July when a local man received a stab wound in the town centre.

The court was shown CCTV footage of the incidents. A man called Fatih Bas was kicked by a number of men, and Williams appeared to stamp on him.

A short time later there was a report of trouble in thePenrallt area at the home of Mustafa Sari, owner of a burger and kebab house, his pregnant wife and their three year old daughter.

Jones had told him that a young man had been fighting with his brother but Mr Sari replied that Bas had nothing to do with him.

A group then started to throw bricks at Mr Sari's car, smashing the windscreen and screaming "Kill him".

Racist insults were shouted and Mrs Sari and her daughter became extremely upset.